“Waveland” – Frederick Barthelme – Letter to Author I was gripped by your fierce, ornery precision and also the similarities between your protagonist Vaughn and myself re: age, education, divorce. Your description of Hurricane Katrina devastation put me right in the middle of it. The link between the hurricane of a marriage and a real [...]
Your book Gulag is a remarkable achievement. It is a new and very large lens through which to view 20th century history. I am embarrassed for the U.S. education system that Soviet history was so neglected in our curriculum. I was led to believe that the U.S. military practically defeated Hitler’s army single-handedly. We were [...]
I enjoyed your book. Lots of excellent mini-bios and bracing descriptions of a wide variety of important modern composers and their musical compositions and performances. Your book is an excellent catalog for tyros such as myself. I found it odd that you appointed yourself as the out-meister for 20th century composers. Was this a bone [...]